#varguard obyron

[marielfeles]

Resent&Old drawings

[front-yard-dandelion]

When she said "ily," but Nemesor Zahndrekh said, "I will always know my Obyron, even if I lose comprehension of all other things. Indeed, sometimes I wonder if I have lost some of my wits - if maybe I don't see the world for what it truly is. But that will never matter, so long as I have you by my side. You are, in many ways, the stronger half of me. The better half. Even if you are an oafish, sandborn clod."

[lockhartandlych]

He had to disguise himself, to avoid the Nemesor's Varguard, who was convinced that Trazyn intended to "collect" his master. The Archaeovist did consider this once, but ultimately decided against it. It would be a pyrrhic endeavor. Though Zahndrekh did possess great archaeological value, attempting to acquire him would arouse the ire of the Sautekh. And that was something he already had plenty enough of.

Broke: Trazyn and Zahndrekh don't interact, they're of different dynasties.

Woke: Trazyn routinely visits Gidrim and records Zahndrekh's anecdotes for their archaeological value.

Bespoke: Trazyn disguises himself to record Zahndrekh's rants, only to be discovered and destroyed by Obyron in a series of increasingly cartoonish altercations until the council finally puts a stop to it, only for Trazyn to disobey them and keep doing it anyway.

[macgyvertape]

Deeply appreciate Nate Crowley’s Severed for saying that not only can the Necrons love even after bio-transference

That love is a bit complicated for Necrons even before they were transformed into literally unfeeling metal

That “ember of something” is his heart and In fact love wins

[elsieblu]

Finished Obyron and the Evanescence squad! I’m caught up to all my units now, though I have a destroyer coming in the mail, and I ordered a birthday present to myself that’s going to take a while to get here, but you’ll see it when it does.

[marielfeles]

Some necron expression style study

&Seperated version

[marielfeles]

I'm not dead! just tired(I HATE TIME DIFFERENCE UGH)

✨️HAVE SOME CTAN!OBYRON DESIGN!✨️

(he's design was tricky to made...)

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Details

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•Reference Board&Trivia

• Actually at first I thought about making his motif a werewolf, but that was too cliché, so I decided to go with a dinosaur, which is cooler. and it's body design is inspired more by beetles than sauropods, even though he has a sauropod-like appearance.

• And yes, tyranid is also one of his motives too.

• Name/Aspect: The Devoted One

• It chooses its master. Long ago, this was something it hesitated to do. Back when it was still "him."

• Now, having become a god, he could be seen as having transformed completely from an objectified being into an object itself.

Yet now, it is an object that no longer has anyone to use it—an object that no longer needs to be used as an object. Is that a good thing? To have all the relationships that defined it cut off, and thus to be free? If a sword is sharp but there is no one to wield it, does that sword have value? Or, since it is a sword with a self, does it have intrinsic value? Who knows. Does it know? Well… maybe not.

It seems that it would be taciturn, both in the time when it was not it and in its current.

• Yes. It has no mouth(Why is it need if you are paracasual god thing and you can show your will by your every move to every lesser things?). But it can scream. The sound it produces would likely be infrasound. Just as a tiger’s roar can freeze you in place, and just as the sound of a bass guitar can make your whole body resonate, your entire body will chorus along to its sound. Of course, whether you want it or not. That’s just how the laws of physics work.

• "Do not be afraid" is not something that can describe it. Be afraid. Run away. It is an object that deserves fear. It must be.

• Q: So, will he remember his old mas—

A: Again, no. But it might remember he was really, REALLY something to it. In low chance....At last it might not remember him and forgot him, it will not trying to fight with him or crack him or eat him..... Maybe.

• It keeps thinking that it has lost something, but it cannot seem to grasp what it is. Well, perhaps it doesn’t matter. If it has been forgotten from memory, then it probably wasn’t important anyway.

There was something… something that kept it alive, maintained it as him rather than it. What was it? No, who was that being?

• It is a god and a self-aware non-human intelligence. Like self-aware weapons in fantasy works, or divine self-aware animals with consciousness in eastern legends.

Even though it is an object, it probably will not answer or pay attention to the unworthy. In other words, if it looks easy to handle, it will likely ignore you—or worse, devour you.

How can that be if it has no mouth? I don’t know. Don’t ask.

• Its organic traits are stronger than its inorganic ones. Can it breathe? Yes.

• PUPPY TAIL.(IMPORTANT)

• Still tend to overworking.

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songs used while working

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+BONUS

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[macgyvertape]

Thinking about that tumblr post that mentions people wished there was exploration themes of self sacrifice that wasn’t just dying, and how excellently that theme is explore in the 40k Necron short story Severed by Nate Crowley.

Warning minor spoilers

Introduction to the audience that on a personal level Obyron fights along ghosts, his former comrades lack the memory of their former lives and without memory they are little more than automata

Then with the stakes set up for the audience, of what he risks becoming, Obryron faces the choice of having to having to sacrifice these memories for Zahndrekh who he loves and is extremely loyal to

It’s deeply touching this moment of self sacrifice where Obyron decides the sacrifice is worth it. Anyway I highly recommend this novel, you don’t need to know much about 40k to enjoy it.